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In Reply to: RE: Randall Research Cables posted by unclestu on July 9, 2012 at 14:00:44:
His name was Randall 'Randy' McCarter.
Randy and I were good friends. In fact, I was lucky enough to attend WCES as a part of "Team Randall" way back in 1983. Randy was (like Uncle Stu) very, very intelligent, and likewise willing to share his seemingly encyclopaedic knowledge of all things electrical with everyone, including morons, such as myself.
I was even more lucky to own Randy's 64 speaker cables, his Symmetrical ICs, a hyper Randall modified Electron Kinetics Eagle 7a, a wonderful custom built preamp by Randy, a pair of custom Randall-built battery-powered head amps (awesome!), a super-tweaked out SOTA Sapphire 'table that Randy hand-built for me, and (of course) a pair of his super-modded Dahlquist DQ-10s, all of which synergized in such a stunning fashion for 1983 that my friends were always left in audio bliss whenever they came by for a listening session (as was I!) It was a full Randall system, sounded incredible, and cost me a small fortune way back then, especially for a young kid! But I was simply ecstatic with the system's performance, and incredibly thankful, too! Randy was great!
Randy got hit with some tough luck that wiped out his cable business and took him out financially. He began again doing full-time audio modification work, and when I got a pair of the just introduced Magneplanar MG IIIa speakers, Randy was there to make the most INCREDIBLE cross-overs I have ever seen. Even he said they were among the finest things he ever did, and I was so grateful to him, I could really never repay him. The Maggies sounded absolutely awesome, and I only sold them a year ago, when my family and I moved from Southern California to New Zealand. The guy who got them excitedly called me the day he hooked them up, claiming they were the best speakers he had heard in his life, thanking me profusely for them. They were THAT good, and all because of Randy.
When he moved away from Orange County to Dallas (Plano, actually) I flew out to stay with him a number of days, and really saw what a party animal that guy was! He was simply incredible to hang out with, and again, I just felt so blessed and lucky to be able to share some awesome moments with him.
Later on, he moved away, started to work on getting an internet company going, selling big-ticket items with excellent margins, but we lost touch, sadly, and I haven't heard from him since.
The guy was an audio legend, a real pioneer who always had time and patience for a know-nothing dork like me, and it was Randy who got me hooked into the high-end, incessant tweaking and ridiculously exotic audio esoterica.
And for that........... (my wife will forever hate him!) :-)
Just kidding!
Wherever he is, I hope he is doing great, living large, and having a ball!
What a guy! :-)
WS
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